Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

AcDec-Art > Duchamp, Gropius, Kandinsky > Flashcards

Duchamp, Gropius, Kandinsky Flashcards

1
Q
A
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Artist envisioned what as the antidote to nationalism and the path a more peaceful society?

A

International style

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

At what Age did kandinsky move to munich to study art?

A

Age 30 (1896)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

At what American school did Gropius take a teaching post?

A

Harvard Graduate School

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

By what, we’re Duchamp’s first paintings as a teenager, inspired?

A

Impressionist landscapes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

At whose Berlin firm did Gropius work in 1908?

A

Peter Behrens

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

By what was the Bauhaus workshop approach inspired by?

A

Medieval guilds

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Born in Russia in 1866

A

Kandinsky

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Define retinal art.

A

Art meant to be consumed visually

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Define conceptual art.

A

Art meant to be understood with the mind

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

How did Duchamp meet many avant-grade writers and artists?

A

Through his brothers.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Gropius’s ideals for a new architectural form became to be known as?

A

International Style

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

How long did kandinsky travel with Gabrielle Munter?

A

4 years (1904-1908)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

How did Kandinsky’s landscape paintings change after Marnau?

A

They became more abstract

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

In what year and where was Gropius appointed director of an important arts school?

A

1919- Weimer, Germany

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

In what year did Kandinsky move to the small village of Murnau?

A

1908

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Kandinsky returned to Moscow to study what?

A

Law and Economics

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

To where and when did Duchamp submit Fountain?

A

The Society of Independent Artists 1917

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Like Duchamp and Kandinsky, who was interested in developing theoretical approaches to modern art and design?

A

Gropius

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

What did Gropius and Marcel Breuer design together?

A

The Alan I W Frank House in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

What did Gropius die as and in what year?

A

A naturalized citizen of the US–1969

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

What did Gropius rename his art school?

A

The Bauhaus School

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

What did the cubists not like about Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2”?

A

It’s title. They thought it was mockery.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

What do Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, Hannah Hoch, and Francis Picabia all have in common?

A

They all moved to Zurich in opposition of war and were some of the key figures in the Dada Movement.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

What do some people believe LPWY represents?

A

War or rebirth

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

What does Bauhaus roughly translate to?

A

“House of building” or “school of building”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

What happened to kandinsky in 1921?

A

He was invited to teach at Bauhaus

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

What happened to Kandinsly when WWI broke out?

A

He was forced to leave germany and gabrielle.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

What is does Dada mean? And in what language?

A

“Hobbyhorse” in French

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

What is the title of Kandisnky’s painting?

A

Little Painting with Yellow (Improvisation)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

What materials were used to build the Bauhaus?

A

Concrete and glass

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

What motif did kandinsky often repeat?

A

Emphasizing color and flattening the illusion of space

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

What object was used in Duchamp’s “In the Advance of the Broken Arm?”

A

A snow shovel

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

What pseudonym did Duchamp use for Fountain?

A

R. Mutt

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

What was Duchamp’s first ready-made?

A

Bicycle Wheel (1913)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

What rejected superfluous detail?

A

International Style

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

What was ironic about the Bauhaus School’s name?

A

There were no architecture classes taught

26
Q

What was Gropius’s last major work?

A

The Tower East in Shaker Heights, Ohio

27
Q

What was Kandisnky’s radical shift toward?

A

COMPLETE abstraction

29
Q

What was significant about the lines at the Bauhaus?

A

They were intentionally asymmetrical

29
Q

What was LPWY’s date & measurments?

A

1911-1914

31 x 39 5/8 inches

30
Q

What was the name of Duchamp’s school in Paris?

A

Academie Julian

31
Q

What was the title and volume number of the Dada journal that published the reactions to “fountains” rejection from the society’s group show?

A

“The Blind Man”, Volume 2 (May 1917)

36
Q

What were the grounds did the Society proclaim for rejecting Fountain?

A

1) it was immoral, or vulgar 2) It was plagiarism (a plain piece of plumbing)

37
Q

What were the three main buildings at the Bauhaus?

A

The workshop, the studio building, and the vocational school

38
Q

What year did Gropius leave the Bauhaus?

A

1928

38
Q

When and where did Kandisnky die?

A

In Paris in 1944

39
Q

When did Duchamp die?

A

October 1968

41
Q

When did Kandinsky’s work began to gravitate to abstract, geometric forms?

A

After the 1917 revolution

42
Q

When was Kandinsky named a degenerate and by who?

A

in 1933, by the nazis

44
Q

When was Kandinsky’s Blue rider period? And what was its german name?

A

1911-1914

Der Blaue Reiter

45
Q

Where and when did the Dada Movement originate?

A

Zurich, Switzerland (1916)

47
Q

Where did Duchamp first submit “Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2”?

A

Salon des Independants

49
Q

Where did Kandinsky meet Gabrielle Munter?

A

Phalanaxschule

50
Q

Where did Kandinsky spend his childhood?

A

Odessa

51
Q

Where did the Bauhaus move to in 1925?

A

Dessau, German

53
Q

Where was “Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2” shown in 1913?

A

The Armory Show in New York

55
Q

Where was Gropius born?

A

Berlin

56
Q

Which artist argued that an artists very selection of an object transformed it from a utilitarian good into something for aesthetic contemplation?

A

Marcel Duchamp

58
Q

Which artist chose not to identify with any one group?

A

Duchamp

59
Q

Which artist constantly questioned the means of artistic production and quickly moved from one kind of art-making to the other?

A

Marcel Duchamp

60
Q

Which artist developed a major fascination with chess?

A

Duchamp

61
Q

Which artist had a minor heart issue that prevented hi, from being called for military service in WWI?

A

Marcel Duchamp

62
Q

Which artist left nazi Germany in 1934?

A

Gropius

63
Q

Which artist sought “to put art back in the service of mind?”

A

Marcel Duchamp

64
Q

Which artist struggled with drawing and holding a pencil?

A

Gropius

65
Q

Which artist used satire and humor to break down the established ideas about art and its meaning?

A

Duchamp

66
Q

How were Duchamp’s paintings different from other cubists?

A

He showed his figures in motion.

67
Q

Which artist was an architect?

A

Walter Gropius

68
Q

Which artist was called to serve on the western front, and was wounded?

A

Gropius

69
Q

Which artist worked closely with surrealist artists to produce treatises on movement?

A

Duchamp

70
Q

Which artist worked with Maxwell Fry in Great Britain?

A

Gropius

72
Q

Which Bauhaus colleague accompanied Gropius at his teaching post in America?

A

Marcel Breuer

74
Q

Which group believed that rational thought had created the bourgeois capitalist society?

A

Dada

75
Q

Which group of artists believed in creating “anti-art?”

A

The Dada

76
Q

Which groups goal was to host exhibitions showcasing the work of avant-garde artists and claimed to be open to any artist who could pay the membership and exhibition fee?

A

The Society of Independent Artists

77
Q

Which Movement rejected reason and order and embraced irrationality and nonsense?

A

The Dada Movement

78
Q

Which movement sought a universal style of art production that was free of historical and nationalistic references that could appeal to human spirituality at its core?

A

De Stijl Movement in Holland

79
Q

Which of Walter Gropius’s relatives were also architects?

A

His father and great-uncle

80
Q

Which friends of Duchamp were also part of the Dada Movement?

A

Man Ray and Francis Picabia

81
Q

Who came from a long line of artists?

A

Duchamp

82
Q

Who did Kandinsky marry?

A

Nine Von Andreyeskaya

83
Q

Who photographed “Fountain” in 1917

A

Alfred Stieglitz

84
Q

Who popularized a design of door handle and the sans serif font?

A

Gropius

85
Q

Who was a board member and director of the 1917 exhibition that rejected “Fountain?”

A

Marcel Duchamp

86
Q

Who was born in the region of upper Normandy, France?

A

Duchamp

87
Q

Who/what was Kandinsky influenced by?

A

Paul Gauguin, Matisse, and Fauvism

88
Q

Why did Kandisnkys work become smaller?

A

There was a shortage of larger canvases

89
Q

Why did non-western art interest Kandinsky?

A

It was more spiritual

90
Q

With which movement was Marcel Duchamp closely associated with?

A

The New York Dada Movement

AcDec-Art (5 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions